Blood Song (Raven's Shadow #1) by Anthony Ryan [Paperback: Very Good]

Paperback in Very Good condition (734 pages)

Vaelin Al Sorna was only a child of ten when his father left him at the iron gate of the Sixth Order.  The Brothers of the Sixth Order are devoted to battle, and Vaelin will be trained and hardened to the austere, celibate, and dangerous life of a Warrior of the Faith.  He has no family now save the Order.

Vaelins father was Battle Lord to King Janus, ruler of the unified realm.  Vaelins rage at being deprived of his birthright and dropped at the doorstep of the Sixth Order like a foundling knows no bounds.  He cherishes the memory of his mother, and what he will come to learn of her at the Order will confound him.  His father, too, has motives that Vaelin will come to understand.  But one truth overpowers all the rest: Vaelin Al Sorna is destined for a future he has yet to comprehend.  A future that will alter not only the realm, but the world.